Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

The unknown is always interesting.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.

Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side

I look with wonder at that which is before me.

Try to be surprised by something every day.